Heinrich Schaub (soccer player)

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Heinrich Ludwig Schaub , called Ben (n) , (born December 4, 1911 in Kaiserslautern , † August 19, 1943 at Ikoschutowa ) was a German football player .

Life

The commercial employee at the Kaiserslautern sewing machine company Pfaff has played football at FV 1900 Kaiserslautern since 1925. In the 1928/29 season he was for the first time in the squad of the first men's team, which then competed in the second-rate district league Hinterpfalz. In 1929 the FV 1900 merged with Phönix Kaiserslautern to form the FV / Phönix Kaiserslautern. From the 1930/31 season, Schaub was included in the first team of this club (Saar district league). The club, renamed 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1931 , became champions of the Gauliga Südwest (Saarpfalz season) and Gauliga Westmark, as the top division in the region was called at that time, in 1940 and 1942 . While FCK lost to Kickers Offenbach in the following elimination game in 1940, first place in 1942 allowed them to participate in the final round of the German championship . There they were eliminated in the round of 16 against the eventual German champions FC Schalke 04 . Schaub is credited with a significant part of the success of that time. Most recently he was also the team captain.

The following season 1942/43 was the last of the footballer Heinrich Schaub. On August 19, 1943 he died "in the battle for the Jussiana-Polyana railway line east of Ikoschutowa, a village south of Kharkov".

swell

  • Dominic Bold: 1. FC Kaiserslautern: The Chronicle . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-7307-0046-4
  • Markwart Herzog : The "Betze" under the swastika: 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the time of National Socialism. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-541-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oberberg-fussball.de: 1918-1933 ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Communication from Schaub's unit to his widow, in: Herzog 2006
personal data
SURNAME Schaub, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaub, Heinrich Ludwig; Schaub, Ben; Schaub, Benn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern , Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1943
Place of death at Ikoschutowa